Impulse Point and OPSWAT Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Enhanced Endpoint Security Solution

Impulse extends its Safe Connect Solution by using OPSWAT’s Endpoint Security SDK

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 22, 2005

Tampa, FL, September 20, 2005 - Impulse Point, an endpoint security policy management solution provider for higher education, and OPSWAT, Inc., a leading provider of endpoint security competency tools, announced a multi-year technology partnership wherein Impulse Point will incorporate OPSWAT’s anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall endpoint security technology into Impulse’s Safe Connect policy management solution.

The partnership will enhance Impulse Point’s ability to enforce end user anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall security policies exercised by universities and colleges across the nation.

“Higher education institutions demand an endpoint security solution that can remain up-to-date with the ever growing diversity of end user devices”, explained David Robinson, CEO of Impulse Point. “Our partnership with OPSWAT ensures that our valued clients will continue to receive the industry’s broadest and most advanced endpoint security management functionality available.”

Impulse’s Safe•Connect will leverage anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall modules of the OPSWAT Endpoint Security Integration SDK—the industry standard for endpoint security compliancy.

“The ability to secure both wired and wireless networks are an increasingly important challenge”, said Benny Czarny, OPSWAT’s founder and CEO. “The combination of OPSWAT and Impulse policy management solutions now gives institutions of higher education better control over the multitude of unmanaged computing devices within their residential dorms and campus networks.”

“OPSWAT’s Endpoint Security SDK provides security technology vendors and integrators with cost-effective means of developing a single management interface that supports the diverse mix of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall applications used by their end-customers. The SDK has also been successfully used by corporate customers to develop internal endpoint security management solutions and is deployed by more than 2 million users“, said Tom Mullen, OPSWAT's Business Development Manager.

About Impulse Point:

Designed for higher education’s unique environment, Impulse Point enables institutions to automate and enforce end user authentication, anti-virus, anti-spyware, Microsoft security patches, illegal P2P music file sharing, and bandwidth consumption policies. The result is a more secure, reliable, and available IT network infrastructure that balances the institution’s desire to maintain a safe computing environment with academic freedom. Impulse Point (http://www.impulse.com) is headquartered in Lakeland, Florida and is one of the Bay area’s premier technology innovators.

About OPSWAT:

OPSWAT, Inc. (http://www.opswat.com) is a leading manufacturer of endpoint security development tools, specializing in anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and browser security integration SDKs which cover the majority of endpoint security products. OPSWAT customers include security technology companies, system integrators, and corporations seeking to manage endpoint security applications. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in Herzliya, Israel.

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